Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Platitudinous Infection

The Sino-Flu has spread to the airwaves. It has squarely placed career bureaucrats before the TV cameras as experts who spew forth droplets infected with platitudes and withered statistics based on the most inept forecasting models since the global warming "hockey stick" chart.
Pick a day and you will get wildly different predictions from the formerly unknown Dr. Fauci. Had there been no Chinese Flu, Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci would have remained unknown. He was a benign figure, an embedded bureaucrat, safe in his well paid, secure position. As the early signs of the virus emerged, he predicted few problems, no need for separation or masks. Then in early March he forecast dire death numbers of a million or more. Then his model changed again. Deaths were predicted at two hundred forty thousand in America. Now he is down to predicting maybe one hundred thousand. The models, like those for climate change, were wildly over-stated. Fauci wanted America to self-quarantine for over a year to be safe. Spoken like a true bureaucrat, government employee (there are no government workers), who has never had to miss a paycheck while on the government payroll.
There are suspicious indictors that make one fear his motives are not pure. He comes from the Bolshevik capital of America: Brooklyn. He supported and his wife donated to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Fauci was quick to (wrongfully as it has turned out) contradict Trump when he was touting the hopefulness of hydroxychloroquine with Z-pack for relieving Chinese flu's viral systems in many cases.
The lying, anti-Trump, media has been lionizing Fauci and his incorrect early statements ever since. He has been the darling on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. ... He could barely hold up his swollen head on his diminutive body for a time. Finally he has tempered his statements somewhat, but that was when he was on Fox News.
There are other government experts who would also do less harm by keeping their traps shut, like Surgeon General Jerome (don't wear masks) Adams.
Government Experts... maybe we need some amateurs who just say "I don't know."

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